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Whispers from Chicago by Nobody Likes You

“you can post it on the website if you think its good enough. its me on the uke and vocals…. i recorded it during a morning thunderstorm…. i’m not sure if you can hear that…… its called Whispers From Chicago you can say it’s by the band Nobody Likes You since there are two members of it playing. Nobody Likes You presents: Whispers From Chicago ….. a recording of a man in a shack with another man playing the piano while the vocal man plays a uke and whispers his sweet verse about the place that he is from. hope you like it.
marz”

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Cape Town is going to shut off water to 4 million citizens due to climate chaos-fueled drought. By 2050, 1/3 of our planet will be a desert. This is among the first in what will be a history of cities that will have to ration water to their citizens because the elites that operate our governments and corporations would rather loot our resources than do anything meaningful to stop the climate change that is already devastating Earth. Unless we act as a collective to stop them, things will only get worse.

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Cape Town faces “catastrophic" consequences as water taps to four million citizens will be turned off within the next 80 days. ... See more

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If politicians are merely the figureheads for the powerful interests they represent, Trump may be the closest thing to not having a president altogether:

'Trump is not “a President”; this is what must be said at all costs, because there is no “President”, per se, if we’re going to define that office in terms of what it represented all the way through Obama’s second term. Something drastic has happened: everyone can feel this even if they can’t quite properly verbalize it. We are in a whole new phase of American and thus, by extension, global history.

Certainly, there is still something everyone has silently agreed (for the time being) to call “the President”. But there’s no precedent at all for attaching that title to the thing it is currently being attached to. I say “thing”, and not “person”, by the way, because Trump is not a President precisely to the extent that there’s no individual human being there that we can grab hold of. And there never was: Donald J. Trump has always been “Trump” to us in a way that has nothing to do with personhood, and everything to do with branding.' ... See more

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